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Summary: The first black chief of a small racially divided town lowered crime with community style policing, but then they made him a criminal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FRI

Brown, Rita Mae.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Connolly, Sheila

Summary: "The first in a brand-new series from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly! Katherine Hamilton's goal in high school was to escape from her dead-end hometown of Asheford, Maryland. Fifteen years later she's got a degree in hospitality management and a great job supervising every aspect of the day-to-day operations of a high-end boutique hotel on the Baltimore waterfront. Then her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CON

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CON

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Student reporters from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, recall the attack on their school, describe recovery efforts and their classmates' part in the struggle for gun control, and discuss their roles as journalists.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363 WE

Tyler, Anne

Summary: Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TYL

Summary: An urban epic set in Baltimore, where police detectives investigate cases involving the illegal drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and its bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIR

Kooser, Ted.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.2 KOO

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "In the days immediately following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed seventeen people, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman began filming with students and families whose lives were forever altered"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AFT
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AFT

Hogg, Lauren

Summary: Lauren Hogg, one of the survivors of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school in Parkland, Florida, dramatically tells her story in graphic novel form. The tragedy of yet another mass shooting has galvanized the young people of the country, and helped launch a movement that continues to gain momentum. Lauren Hogg lost her two best friends that horrible day, but despite her loss she,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zuiker Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 371.7 HOG

Summary: "Featuring art and writing from the students of the Parkland tragedy, this is a raw look at the events of February 14, and a poignant representation of grief, healing, and hope. The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School share their emotional journeys that began on February 14, 2018, and continue today. This revealing and unfiltered look at teens living in the wake of tragedy is a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363 LER

Summary: A look at the drug scene in Baltimore through the eyes of the dealers, cops, and users.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2008

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIR

Blake, Eubie

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: M. Witmark & Sons 1919

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Doak, Robin S. (Robin Santos)

Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the Maryland Colony"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.2 DOA

Summary: Glimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders. Glimmer of Hope tells the story of how a group of teenagers raced to channel their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. In keeping up with their ongoing fight to end gun-violence in all communities, the student leaders of March for Our...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 363 GLI

Clements, S. Eugene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Family Line Publications 1987

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3752 Cleme

Langley, Sharon

Summary: "When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 LAN

Watkins, D. (Dwight)

Summary: "At nine-years-old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad's lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. Directly in his periphery is east Baltimore, a poverty-stricken city battling the height of a crack epidemic just hours from the nation's capital. Watkins, like many boys around him, is thrust out of childhood and into a world where manhood means...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATKINS, D. (DWIGHT) WAT

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEA

Summary: An in-depth look at the early career of cult filmmaker John Waters and focusing on the making of Pink flamingos.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Video 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIV

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: Follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WIR

Jawando, Will

Summary: "A memoir by the lawyer, activist, and county councilman Will Jawando"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAWANDO, WILL JAW

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B JAWANDO JAW

Summary: Chronicles a multi-generational family business dealing illegal drugs and the efforts of the Baltimore police to curb their trade, draws parallels between these organizations and the men and women on either side of the battle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WIR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WIR

Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus

Summary: This work contains previously unpublished Revolutionary War records and consists chiefly of the names of those who subscribed to the Oath of Fidelity and Support from the early counties of Calvert, Frederick, Montgomery, and Washington. In addition, there is an extensive list of loyal civil servants of Prince George's County-constables, surveyors, justices, grand jurors, etc. The data,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1978

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 BRU

Young, Skottie

Summary: As Gert navigates a fairy-tale netherworld with a capital "H," Fairyland's baddies brood and brew to revitalize a rotten ruler. Can Fairyland hope to survive the coming storm when the only people trying to save it are the mastermind tag team of Larry and Duncan Dragon? Are the fates of Gertrude and the land she loves to hate more intertwined than anyone expected?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2018

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